I stand behind the idea that forcing everything through SSH to a VM they control or over HTTPS to a web app they control has meaningful security advantages. Of

I stand behind the idea that forcing everything through SSH to a VM they control or over HTTPS to a web app they control has meaningful security advantages. Of course you can craft a hostile client for any service, but it adds a barrier (and a place to run countermeasures) that wasn't there before. It definitely lessens the likelihood of getting caught up by some dumb untargeted drive-by malware, at least. Also, do keep in mind the target audience for Microsoft's enterprise products - if something lets you check off a bunch of boxes on some government or industry compliance checklist, then that thing has value to those customers, regardless of any actual security benefit.